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Water, Women, and Local Social Organization in the Western Kenya Highlands [PDF]

, 2006
Safe water is widely recognized as both a fundamental human need and a key input into economic activity. Across the developing world, the typical approach to addressing these needs is to segregate supplies of water for domestic use from water for large ...
Brent Swallow, Elizabeth Were, Jessica Roy   +2 more
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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Benefits of symbiotic ectomycorrhizal fungi to plant water relations depend on plant genotype in pinyon pine. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Sevanto S, Gehring CA, Ryan MG, Patterson A, Losko AS, Vogel SC, Carter KR, Dickman LT, Espy MA, Kuske CR.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of different cover crop residue management practices on soil moisture content under a tomato crop (Lycopersicon esculentum) [PDF]

, 2014
Water relations are among the most important physical phenomena that affect the use of soils for agricultural, ecological, environmental, and engineering purposes.
Cornelis, Wim, Gachene, CKK, Karanja, N, Karuku, GN, Verplancke, Hubert   +4 more
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Animal‐Based Brands Taking the Plant‐Based Opportunity: A Tasting Experiment Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Plant‐Based Brand Extensions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how consumer taste and brand equity perceptions shape the acceptance of plant‐based milk products. Using a blind/informed tasting experiment, we evaluated consumers' willingness to buy (WTB) and taste perception of a plant‐based milk alternative produced by a traditional dairy brand, compared with competing plant‐based ...
Federico Parmiggiani, Mirta Casati, Elena Castellari, Fosca Vezzulli, Veronica Vitali, Milena Lambri, Claudio Soregaroli   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aerosol Impacts on Water Relations of Camphor (Cinnamomum camphora). [PDF]

Front Plant Sci, 2022
Chi CE, Zinsmeister D, Lai IL, Chang SC, Kuo YL, Burkhardt J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Optimization can provide the fundamental link between leaf photosynthesis, gas exchange and water relations

, 2020
Ross M. Deans, Timothy J. Brodribb, Florian A. Busch, Graham D. Farquhar   +3 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Water-management models in Florida from ERTS-1 data [PDF]

The author has identified the following significant results. The usefullness of ERTS 1 to improving the overall effectiveness of collecting and disseminating data was evaluated.
Coker, A. E., Cordes, E. H., Higer, A. L., Rogers, R. H.   +3 more
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A multiscale Bayesian optimization framework for process and material codesign

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The simultaneous design of processes and enabling materials such as solvents, catalysts, and adsorbents is challenging because molecular‐ and process‐level decisions are strongly interdependent. Sequential approaches often yield suboptimal results since improvements in material properties may not translate into superior process performance. We
Michael Baldea
wiley   +1 more source